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Strange Tales #97

Marvel · Series began 1951 · June 1962

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Dates

Cover date: June 1962
On sale: March 8, 1962
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #97 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
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UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

British

Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Steve Ditko, Gene Colaninks: Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, Joe Maneely, Gene Colancolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

When a Planet Dies! · 7 pages
Humans are forced underground by the Sun’s death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world.
Mystery Pupil · 2 pages
A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
The Madness! · 6 pages
A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman. He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad!
Goodbye to Linda Brown · 5 pages
A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home.
Behind the Dreadful Door! · 5 pages
A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration. It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model.

Publisher’s description

A handful of bizarre supernatural tales featuring: human guinea pigs in an alien’s cruel experiment, a time-shifting fog, and a wheelchair-bound mermaid!

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Marvel Tales (1966), Marvel Selects: Spider-Man (2000), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2005), Crypt of Horror (2005), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2019), The Amazing Spider-Man (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2022)